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Polluting units in Ahmedabad get pollution board s support
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Self sufficient victims
Post-tsunami, expensive coral restoration plans might not be needed after all, says a recent advisory report commissioned by the World Bank (wb) and prepared by scientists led by a researcher from
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Learning to bargain
Aggressively claiming its right over its natural resources post tsunami, Indonesia recently adopted a new law that requires all foreign fishing vessels to give 70 per cent of their catch to the
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Facing the flood
How prepared is Bihar?
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Non Aussie blotch
Under pressure from farmers, Australia is set to adopt new labelling laws that facilitate distinguishing between Australian and "imported' food. Food products with less than 85 per cent
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Bust the mills
The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province, bordering Uruguay, recently announced his decision to file a complaint with us -based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, opposing the
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Paradise threatened
Recently tonnes of oil slick and oil tar were washed off into the Arabian Sea, polluting half a dozen beaches in Goa. This is the second such incident to have occurred this year in India's top
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Net to capture trafficers
The world's largest wildlife law enforcement network has been launched by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean), on November 01, 2005. Known as asean Wildlife Enforcement Network
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Away from home
When the Tamil Nadu government started cracking the whip, trying to move fishing villages away from the coasts in accordance with the rules governing the coastal regulation zones (CRZ), they
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Snippets
• Cycle Chem Inc will spend more than half a million dollars to correct hazardous waste violations and upgrade equipment at their hazardous waste facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, usA. The
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Bogaram village
Kosgi <i>mandal</i>, Mahbubnagar district
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Pricing forests: Net present value assessed
Committee submits report on net present value
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EPA puts resources in cold storage
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to shut down its libraries, end public access to research materials and put into cold storage its collection of materials on the assumption
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Arms manufacturer working on lead free bullets
In an effort to reduce battlefield contamination and health risks for the armed forces, the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems, the world's fourth largest defence contractor, is now working on
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SOUTH ASIA
Environmental court: Pakistan's Sindh High Court has recently directed the ministry of environment to establish environment tribunals, as required by the Pakistan Environment Protection Act, 1997,
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Revising its course
The world's largest drainage system, the Amazon river, has gone through three different stages of drainage since the mid-Cretaceous period, says a team of geologists from the US and Brazil. In the
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Mount Abu notification sparks protests
mount Abu, in Sirohi district, Rajasthan was shut down from November 13 to 15. This was after the state's wildlife department issued a notification on October 4, 2006 declaring the area a wildlife
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Past repast
Earlier, most people ate what was locally available: fish, for example, was a staple in coastal areas, and people living in, or close to, fertile agricultural tracts preferred grains. Classical cuisines are often a good indicator of local food preferences, even if we account for the caveat that these were very often on the plates of the well-to-do. Food was sourced locally. <br>
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The elusive crane
Keoladeo no longer gets its famous Siberian visitors When it was declared a sanctuary in 1971, Keoladeo used to host more than 230 bird species. It was the celebrated winter home for the